Comics: "Sam Hester's Ramsay"

In 2011, I was invited to write a comic strip about my neighbourhood, Ramsay, for the Calgary Herald's "Project Calgary" series. The comic strip - which (ironically) I wrote in a hotel room in Germany, looking up Ramsay landmarks on the internet - provoked some positive responses which made me think about writing a monthly strip about Ramsay for our volunteer-run community newsletter.

This strip ran in the newsletter for most of five years. Now, in 2018, I'm stepping away, but we still have new comics coming! Ramsay readers seem to like having a newsletter comic - so I've invited some "artists-in-residence" to contribute to the newsletter with their own neighbourhood stories, instead. Our first three artists-in-residence for 2018's newsletter series are Lethbridge cartoonist Eric Dyck, Ohio comics creator Phil Dokes, and Sharon Barrette, based in Parksville, BC.

Here is the original Calgary Herald comic (in three sections because the original poster was too big to post in this format), followed by six favourites from the newsletter strip. You can see more of them here on my blog, and the early ones are here on my old website.